Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan J. Perlis
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous